This is an analysis of the poem Brook, The that begins with:
Through the dreary winter,
Ice-locked, white and chill! ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXbccbXbXbb adadd efbFccggfXgF EcXcaaacEc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,5,12,10,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101010 11111 101010 10101 1010010 001010 10101 001010 10111 1110010 111110 111111 011110 00101 101110 10111 011101 101011 10101 101110 11101 101110 101010 1100 0101 10111 1011010 101010 11101 101011 10101 101010 00101 0111010 0111110 1101110 110111 101011 11111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 266
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 39
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words all, dripping are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines it is repeated).
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- summary of Brook, The;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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